The Prolinnova Country Platforms have elected two new members in the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG): Elske van der Fliert to an independent seat in the POG and Joe Ouko to the seat for farmer organisations. Elske van de Fliert is Associate Professor at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, and Director of its Centre for …
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Promoting Local Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security (Proli-FaNS): Mid-year progress report for the period February–July 2017 PDF file: 289 KB
From 30 May to 1 June 2012, the Agricultural and Rural Development Department of the World Bank hosted an international workshop in Washington DC on “Investing in and Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Systems”. The 3-day event brought together people from both inside and outside the World Bank to launch the Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) Sourcebook and to …
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Pratap Shrestha of USC Canada has replaced Ann Waters-Bayer as co-chair of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG). He is a founder member of Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), a Nepal-based NGO that initially hosted Prolinnova–Nepal, and was Executive Director of LI-BIRD in 2003–09. He was instrumental in setting up Prolinnova–Nepal and was …
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A Proli-FaNS partners meeting was held on 19 May 2017 – immediately after the end of the International Partners Workshop (IPW) – at the International Conference Centre of the University of Development Studies in Tamale, Ghana. It brought together the ACDEP team, the Proli-FaNS Country Platform coordinators, some members of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) …
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Host organisation: Resilient Agriculture and Economy through Biodiversity in Action (RAEBIA) Contact persons: Xisto Martins (xistomartins@raebia.org)Mateus Maia (teusmaia@raebia.org)
Timor Leste Country Platform as of May 2017! At its meeting in May 2017, the Prolinnova Oversight Group approved the membership of Timor Leste (East Timor) as a new Country Platform within the Prolinnova community of practice. The CP comprises NGOs, government agencies and two universities. The host organisation – RAEBIA (Resilient Agriculture and Economy …
On 4 May 2017, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) organised a national network meeting to launch the Proli-FaNS project. It was held at the Agricultural Information and Resource Center in Nairobi and was attended by representatives from NGOs, farmer groups, community-based organisations and government departments. The main aim was to share with PK partners the progress of PK …
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From the over 150 candidates that applied to be Subregional Coordinator (SRC) of Prolinnova activities in Africa, the two persons selected by the Country Platforms in the respective subregions and the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) were Amanuel Assefa for the Eastern & Southern Africa subregion and Georges Djohy for the West & Central Africa subregion. …
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From the over 150 candidates that applied to be Subregional Coordinator (SRC) of Prolinnova activities in Africa, the two personsselected by the Country Platforms in the respective subregions and the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) were Amanuel Assefa forthe Eastern & Southern Africa subregion and Georges Djohy for the West & Central Africa subregion. …
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